The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-17
THE VIEWS OF A HEATHEN.
Wong Ching Foo Picks Flaws in Western
Civilization.
From, the Ncw York 1Iorla.

line thlng tnaC taxes my eye Tue nosl
in Western civilization is the way the
American moguls make their money.
There's nothing small about them in
.abbing desires, their ability to make
millions upon nothing, and the remarka.
bly, civilized way in which they are
allowed to do it, takes the heathen's eye.
If that fnanciering secret is introduced
into Chiua-which is being done at this
moment by a missionary like Count
Mitkiewicz, of the Chinese banking syn
dicate-the entire empire will become
willing converts in single day. To
such profitable enterprise, even II. I. NJ.
the Emperor would join in. And then
goodbye to the Chinese laundries
throughout the United States, and the
now troublesome social and political
problem of Chinese immigration would
be thing Of the past. Down with work
of all kinds. Speculation is emperor.
Financial legerdemain watering values
with such "business" ideas once grated
upon the heather mind, the Western
world would have to look out for its lau-
rels.
Another very valuable Western idea
that would benefit the heathens is the
"patent medicines" Our trouble with
the teeming millions of Chinese, is that
they do not take enough medicines TO
keep their bodies and souls together.
That's why they don't multiply faster.
There are only 4OO,O00,OOO of them,
while, by our Western patent medicine
system, we have in the United States
alone 6O,Ooo,oo0 of people, with immi'
grants and all.
THE MERCENARY AMERICANS.
To turn to more serious things, I con-
fess that do not understand why, for a
matter of mere existence, civilized people
30 cruelty and persistently crowd each
other to the wall. From day to day,
even through the night under the electric
blaze, they engage in wild struggle for
existence, when Heaven has made the
earth to give forth her abundance for
their comforts without the necessity of
their killing each other to get it. Yet
they don't even allow their beasts of
burden time to masticate their food prop
erly. No wonder they fall by the road
side. Misery is desperate and crime
rampant, and the few successful in their
financial and social aims "drop OF > just
as they are all rea to enjoy life.
Look at lower Broadway during busi-
ness hours on any day, especially in and
about Fulton street. Why, the intensity
of the struggle for worldly existence as
manifested there, is simply enough to
freeze the nerves of any contemplating
heather. Cui bono?' What life }! Oh,
superior beings is there no more to.
morrow Is this the modern method of
preparing for the future? No wonder your
heart disease is common and your insane
asylums are crowded. Has civilization
so advanced that it perpetually makes
men willing slaves in mart of constant
and cruel mental anguish?
Fashion, style and habit make it nee.
essary for such terrible contentious, prob.
ably! l have seen how, in the most
"civilized" part of the United States, a
family of six, poor and almost dependent,
will buy or hire an expensive music box
called piano, and place it in the parlor,
just for show, and just because other
families, who are better off than they
have the same thing. The heathen pre-.
fers to have no piano, but to have some>
thing good to eat aud wea
A HEATHEN's VIEW OF OUR POLITICS.
In politics, among the civilized Amer.
ican nation, it seems to me, everybody is
boss in the matter of government and
nobody is boss, after all, except in the
matter of "boodle" business. Everybody
wants the Doodle, but only few are get
ting it. AS rule the fifth.class lawyers
rule. If the supply of these runs short a
descent is made upon the saloons and liq-
uor divers to occupy the positions of
trust. Such men as the late Wendell
Phillips, Beecher, Horace Greedy and
other intellectual giants are left to die
unrewarded by grateful people. They
are afraid such men may not be shrewd
enough to plunder them quickly enough.
The presiding magistrates of the Courts
of this country are very smart men and
generally good men, but they lack the
dignities that properly belong to Court
of justice, which, according to our
heather standpoint, is one of the most
important parts Of the administration of
the law-to enforce obedience by awe
instead of corporeal punishment and i'm
prisonment.
Yet there is more in red.tape ,,siness
| in one of the least of the Courts of Amer.
ca than in the greatest Courts in Asia.
No man, woman or child can obtain
redress in the Courts of justice here with
out money, and lsts of it too, and must
swallow the bitter dose as best he, she or
it can. The only Courts in which you
need no money in America are the police
Courts; but there only very small por-
tion of mems grievances can be attended
to-. Even there the richer citizen has
invariably the winning card.
And this is a free country
A poor, heart broken husband, pawn.
ing his only coat for 50 on bleak, cold
winter day, in order TO obtain capital
that he might sell peanuts in the most
civilized city in the world New York;
for the support of a sickly wife and child,
was arrested not long since and thrown
| info miserahIa dunooon for an entire